- Double Up On Your Reading: From 1st November 2005 to 31st January 2006, everyone’s loan quota of books from the National Library Board has been doubled. Ordinary members can up borrow up to 8 books and/or magazines (previously 4). For Premium members, they can now borrow up to 16 items and up to 8 AV items (from 8 and 4 respectively). So, go on down to any of the public libraries and start borrowing.
- A Bird Flu Resource Guide: A resource guide on CNet on the bird flu. It’s quite worrying as more and more cases of bird flu are been discovered around the world, Though there has not been reported cases that bird flu can be spread from birds to human, there is still a great worry that it just might spread to humans. If that happens, it could become a global flu pandemic.
- Nine Major Marketing Mistakes: Quite an interesting list of marketing mistakes to take note of if you’re into marketing.
- Library 2.0 Movement Sees Benefits in Collaboration with Patrons: An article on Publish that discusses how librarians can make use of blogs, podcasts, videocasts, wiki tools, IM, and tags (technologies from Web 2.0 hence the term “Library 2.0”).
- Museums and Libraries: Engaging America’s Youth: Though it’s published by an American government agency, the report deals with what is quite close to our hearts of getting more youths (9 - 19 years old) to make use of our libraries as well as museums. (via Institute of Museum and Library Service)
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